Great movie till middle - turn it off as soon as you see cliché military bad guys

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2014)

If it had kept up the pace and vibe of the first half, this would have been a 9 or 10 rating. Veers off the tracks when the little band of survivors encounters a very cliché group of 'worse than the zombies' military jackalopes. Why do film schools still teach the importance of including such artificial conflict like this - MEH. A good zombie film shows people trying to work together and still not pulling it off, now that's scary. Walking Dead has the same flaw, good otherwise. The scenes from the start are good - of the guy waking up alone in a hospital, a deserted city, a couple desperate normals now transformed by necessity into capable zombie killers, fighting for their lives. Worth watching the first half only.